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The 2024 Azorean regional election was held on 4 February 2024, [2] to determine the composition of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.The election replaced all 57 members of the Azores Assembly, and the new members would then elect the President of the Autonomous Region.
The main entrance inside the passageway to the grounds, showing the dome and grand staircase The manicured gardens within the grounds of the Assembleia Legislativa . The regional legislative assembly, since it was first instituted, has maintained its seat in the city of Horta. [1]
João Pais Amaral — — Luís Pires — Lisbon Márcia Henriques: João Pinto [b] Bruno Fialho João Ribeiro Nuno Afonso Inês Bravo Figueiredo Renata Cambra José Pinto Coelho — José Manuel Coelho: Ossanda Liber — Portalegre Emanuel Martins António Corricas Jorge Ângelo — Fábio Carvalho João Fernandes — José Utra Pinto Coelho ...
The Azores Liberation Front, more commonly known as the FLA (Portuguese: Frente de Libertação dos Açores) is a right-wing paramilitary organization with the goal of forceful independence of the Azores, appearing right after the Carnation Revolution and whose actions included violent attacks on political opponents in 1975.
Altino Pinto de Magalhães served as the first and only president of the Regional Junta, the provisional government that functioned during the transition towards democracy. The Military Governor of the Azores, until 22 August 1975, he was selected to preside over the Junta Governativa dos Açores ( Governing Junta of the Azores ), a commission ...
Reports compiled by RTP Açores reporters sent to the United States, Canada and Brazil led to the creation of the documentary Os Açorianos no Novo Mundo, about Azorean immigration to these countries. Also in June 1989, a special edition of Fim-de-Semana featured inserts from all nine islands. That same year, the new Terceira office opened ...
Similarly, its members contributed to the Autonomy Decree of 16 February 1928, that suggested a small decentralization of services to the Junta Geral do Distrito Autónomo de Ponta Delgada. Within the same context, it launched an appeal to Madeira autonomists, in order to vet ideal opinions, to which the Madeiran press responded with the ...
Gaspar Frutuoso wrote Saudades da Terra, the first history of the Azores and Macaronesia, in the 1580s.. A small number of alleged hypogea (underground structures carved into rocks) have been identified on the islands of Corvo, Santa Maria, and Terceira by Portuguese archaeologist Nuno Ribeiro, who speculated that they might date back 2,000 years, implying a human presence on the island before ...